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- ↑ "Great Big Groovy Horse". 18 December 1975. p. 51. Retrieved 9 February 2019– via BBC Genome.
- ↑ "Great Big Groovy Horse". 15 December 1977. p. 47. Retrieved 9 February 2019– via BBC Genome.
- ↑ "The UK's highest charting Eurovision stars revealed!" . Retrieved 10 May 2015.
